Keeping Found Things Found : The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management

Front Cover -- Keeping Found Things Found -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Chapter 1. A study and a practice -- 1.1 Keeping found things found -- 1.2 An ideal and the reality -- 1.3 A brief history of PIM -- 1.4 Who benefits from better PIM and how? -- 1.5 A study and a practice -- 1.6 Looking forward: A map for this book -- Chapter 2. A personal space of information -- 2.1 Starting out -- 2.2 What is information to us? -- 2.3 How is information personal? -- 2.4 The information item and its form -- 2.5 Defining a personal space of information -- 2.6 Making sense of the PSI -- 2.7 Looking back, looking forward -- Chapter 3. A framework for personal information management -- 3.1 Starting out -- 3.2 Perspectives on personal information management -- 3.3 PIM activities to map between information and need -- 3.4 PIM-related activities and PIM-related areas -- 3.5 Weaving PIM activities together -- 3.6 Looking back, looking forward -- Chapter 4. Finding and re-finding: From need to information -- 4.1 Starting out -- 4.2 Getting oriented -- 4.3 Everyday finding: Death by a thousand look-ups -- 4.4 Finding is multistep -- 4.5 The limitations in ideal dialogs of finding -- 4.6 Wayfinding through the PSI -- 4.7 Looking back, looking forward -- Chapter 5. Keeping and organizing: From information to need -- 5.1 Starting out -- 5.2 Getting oriented -- 5.3 Everyday keeping and organizing: To each his own -- 5.4 Keeping is multifaceted -- 5.5 The limitations of future perfect visions -- 5.6 PICing our battles -- 5.7 Looking back, looking forward -- Chapter 6. Maintaining for now and for later -- 6.1 Starting out -- 6.2 Getting oriented -- 6.3 Maintaining for now -- 6.4 Maintaining for later -- 6.5 Maintaining for our lives and beyond -- 6.6 Looking back, looking forward -- Chapter 7. Managing privacy and the flow of information.